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2013 State of the Word from Matt Mullenweg

Brian Krogsgard

July 27, 2013

Matt Mullenweg just delivered the 2013 State of the Word, his annual update about WordPress. He started off discussing the history of WCSF, and the first WordCamp San Francisco 8 years ago. It was pretty low tech at first, and…

Official WordPress job board is back open, seeks moderators

Brian Krogsgard

July 17, 2013

Careers

The official WordPress job board is back open. It was down for a while as the primary moderator stepped down. According to a post on the Make WordPress Meta blog by Siobhan McKeown, they are now seeking a few moderators with…

Accessibility objectives for WordPress – initial thoughts

Brian Krogsgard

July 16, 2013

WordPress News

Members of the Make WordPress Accessibility group have created an initial set of accessibility objectives for WordPress. Ultimately, in order to support Matt Mullenweg’s view on the democratization of the web by web-related software, the group wants as many WordPress…

Team of 10 set roadmap for the future of WordPress documentation

Brian Krogsgard

June 20, 2013

WordPress News

A team of 10 WordPress folks just spent three days at the Open Help Conference and Sprints in Cincinnati in order to analyze a variety of issues with current WordPress documentation practices, and to create a roadmap moving forward. The…

Drastic changes to the WordPress UI

Brian Krogsgard

March 9, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Matt Mullenweg posted on the Make WordPress UI blog about some drastic changes that are being experimented with, by way of the MP6 plugin. I look forward to seeing how these evolve, and hope they extend beyond simple aesthetic changes…

WordPress.tv to allow users to submit their own videos

Brian Krogsgard

February 22, 2013

WordPress News

Pretty soon, you'll be able to submit your own videos to WordPress.tv. This will be a great change, as currently there is a consistent queue for getting new videos reviewed and published. The remaining items are to figure out how…

First look at the twentythirteen default theme

Brian Krogsgard

February 18, 2013

DesignWordPress News

A first look at the twentythirteen theme has been posted on the Make WordPress Core blog. The theme's goal is to get back to blogging and to highlight post formats, a feature that will get some love in 3.6. The…

WordPress meetup best practices

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2013

WordPress News

If you're involved with your local meetup (or want to start one), you should be following along the current series on the Make WordPress Events blog from Aaron Jorbin discussing meetup best practices. Today's comments were surprisingly thorough over a…

What WordPress.org support forum tools can be made better?

Brian Krogsgard

January 25, 2013

WordPress News

There's some very healthy discussion going on in the Make WordPress Support blog, where Mike Epstein (Ipstenu) asks: What support forum tools can be made better? Be sure to see her list of known ideas (like reply-by-email), check out the…